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About Portarlington

Portarlington, Cúil an tSúdaire in Irish, is a town in County Laois, 57 km north of Kilkenny. It stands on the R400, R419 and R420. The map gives it 5,016 buildings and 56 named streets, with 144 places named on them in 76 kinds, and 113 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Population
9,288, as the map records it
Where
57 km north of Kilkenny, 65 km from Dublin
Position
53.1622° N, 7.1911° W, 66 m above sea level
Roads
R400, R419, R420, L3157, L31577, L3158 and L3170
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,016 buildings, 56 streets, 144 named places in 76 kinds
Rear of houses at Railway Mews
Rear of houses at Railway Mews·Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View from the train
View from the train·Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Portarlington in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1890 to 1893. That is not a history of Portarlington, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18901893Gracefield GAAPortarlington GAA
The nineteenth century

County Laois since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

153,93044,59591,87718412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 113 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R400, R419, R420, L3157, L31577, L3158 and L3170 running through Portarlington. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 9 lines call at 24 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: St. Patrick’s Boys' National School, Presentation Primary School, Coláiste Isogáin and Sandy Lane School Grounds.

Questions people ask

Where is Portarlington?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 57 km north of Kilkenny and 65 km from Dublin, on the R400, R419 and R420.
How big is Portarlington?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,016 buildings, 56 named streets and 144 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Portarlington?
113 things the map records in and around it, the closest being River walk, Derryounce Pinic area and Sensory Garden.
How do you get to Portarlington?
9 bus and train lines call at 24 stops here in the published timetable, run by Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail, JJ Kavanagh and Slieve Bloom Coach Tours. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
5,016
buildings on the model
56
named streets
144
named places
76
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q1989246). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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